Colonel Joe (Dillinger, Wise Guy) an Asian elephant at Circus Krone

† Colonel Joe (Dillinger, Wise Guy) is a dead castrated Male ♂ Asian elephant, (Elephas maximus), who died at Circus Krone, in Germany, of age in 2012-05-01?. (see detailed list).

Origin

Colonel Joe (Dillinger, Wise Guy) was born wild 1964.

Claimed weight: 7 tons, and height: 3.50 meter high are probably unrealistic, but he is over three meters, and more than 5,5 tons heavy.

According to EEG he was 3.08 meters.

"When this elephant came to Circus Vargas from the LA Zoo in 1973 he had already been castrated at the Vet School in Davis, Cal. To my knowledge, the first time this had ever been done successfully. At the zoo he was called "Dillinger" so they must have known something. With Vargas he was trained by Wally Ross who re-named him "Colonel" after my dad colonel Williams Woodcock but later Rex Williams changed it to "Joe" (Joe Metcalf) since he always preferred one syllable names. For some reason, his billing has remained "Colonel Joe", even in Europe."
//Buckles Woodcock

"Jack [Badal] named him Dillinger because he was a tough little fellow and full of himself. The Los Angeles Zoo did a contest with the zoo patrons to name the baby, after a few weeks they came up with Wise Guy."
//Ivan Henry, The Circus Blog

The North American Regional Studbook for the Asian Elephant formerly listed this elephant with a Temporary Studbook Number (T2143), lacking "supporting documentation to validate their identity." However, the 2010 Edition updates his entry to #679.

Sources used for this article is among others:

• Page 81, Elefanten in Zoo und Circus, Dokumentation 2 Nordamerika, 1997, by European Elephant Group: Haufellner, Schilfarth, Schweiger
• http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2007/04/vargas-elephants-in-practice-1.html
• http://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2007/08/circus-krone-1-from-filipe-von-gilsa.html
• "Jack Badal #2," The Circus Blog, 2011-03-18
• Elefanten-wiki on elefanten.wikia.com http://elefanten.wikia.com/wiki/Colonel Joe (Google Translated version)

Internal relevant links

• More elephants from: Circus Krone
• More elephants from: Germany
• More elephants that was born: 1964
• More elephants that died: 2012-05-01?
• All breeding cows
• All breeding bulls
• The elephant database startpage. Statistics
• List of all captive born elephants in the database

External relevant links (Opens in new window)

• Colonel Joe (Dillinger, Wise Guy) at Elewiki, a wiki collaboration on elefanten.wikia.com (In german) HTTP code: 301 it is valid
• Link to translated version with Google Translate

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